Sinabro

This Google Code page claims

The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more social applications also comes a growing list of site-specific APIs that developers must learn.

OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network’s friends and update feeds.

“Better when it’s social”, my arse. I like my lone website JUST FINE, thank you. The only things I can possibly see benefiting from being connected with others are wikis.

Really, I hate it when it’s so easy for people to reach me. It makes it that much harder to tell who are my true friends.

ComputerWorld writes

Qualified hard drive buyers can choose cash or backup software
November 01, 2007 (Computerworld) — Seagate Technology LLC has agreed to settle a lawsuit by offering customers who purchased a hard drive from the company during the last six years a cash refund or free backup and recovery software.

Yawn. Wake me when they finally fix their ways and advertize the disk space that would show up in a modern operating system. I mean, I don’t care either way. After all, it’s not like I ever buy a hard drive mistakenly thinking that the capacity was advertised at the correct binary convention. Only idiots do that. But, even knowing that, there’s nothing more disheartening than buying a 500 GB hard drive, only to see an output like:

novakyu@nestor:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3              72G   15G   54G  22% /
tmpfs                 252M     0  252M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M   80K   10M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 252M     0  252M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             459G  411G   44G  91% /media/CoolMax

Well, I think in the end, I am really going to keep a journal here. I suppose as long as you don’t know who I am, there is no harm done. That reminds me of a story I heard about a preacher, a priest, and a rabbi, who were swimming in a lake naked. But then, some prankster came along and stole their clothes, so each of them had to walk back to the village with nothing but a bucket. Both the preacher and the priest put the bucket to hide their manhood, but the rabbi put it over his head and says, “I don’t know how your congregation recognizes you, but they usually know who I am by my face.”

i.e. I don’t mind people finding out horrible things about me, as long as you don’t know my face.